Clearing the Airways: Innovation in Asthma & Allergy Treatments Chair: Alan Kaplan MD CCFP(EM) FCFP Chair, FPAGC
Perceived and Actual Control of Asthma in Patients as assessed by respiratory specialists! RESPIRE Based on the answers to the following question: Control of asthma: □ Well controlled □ Moderately controlled □ Poorly controlled □ Very poorly controlled □ Unknown 2 Based on CTS guidelines in combination with data gathered through chart review (Answers presented only for the 172 patients with an answer of “Yes“ to “Did you make any changes to the patient’s asthma therapy at the last visit?”)
Asthma Control is elusive What do we do after the basics of: Adherence, Technique, Trigger avoidance, smoking cessation, review of comorbities (like Rhinitis and GERD) and optimizing current therapies? We find new therapies Let’s review three of them today But be encouraged, there are more coming!
And I was not talking about this….